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Tuition relief now before Congress
(el's (Washington insiders say this will
be the year middle-income families can
expect some relief from high tuition
costs. But not without a highly charged
fight hi Congress.
The current Tuition Tax Credit Bill
now in the Senate Finance Committee
would allow for a tax reduction up to $500
per student at any education level. The
bill sponsored by Senators Moynihan (D-
NV) and Packwood (R-Ore) plus 41
Senators co-signers, includes private and
parochial schools. The concept of a tax
credit is aimed at relieving the financial
strain on middle-income families who
don't qualify for financial aid but are
hard-pressed to meet college costs.
Similar bills have sailed through the
Senate only to be torn apart in the House.
Last month, final passage of a Social
Security financing bill was held up for
two weeks because of a tuition tax credit
amendment attached to it. The impasse
in the House was solved when the Senate
backed down after previously voting for
toe amendment, sponsored by Senator
Roth (R-Del).
The Senate took up the issue again in
January by introducing less than seven
bills dealing wito tax credits. The most
likely to succeed are the Packwood-
Moynihan version and a deferred tax
plan introduced by Senator Mikva (D-
111), which has found a measure of acceptance with House conferees. Mikva's
plan would permit a parent or self-
supporting student to withhold payment
of up to $1,500 in taxes until after the student graduates. The Mikva plan would
operate like a loan with little or no in
terest owed and a repayment period of
ten years,
Lon Skavedra, aide to Congresswoman
Patricia Scfaroeder (D-Colo), believes
, the version presented for a winning
House vote will be a combination of the
two. As it stands now however a lot of
compromise Will have to be effected to
overcome opposition.
The most articulate expression of dissent against the passage of such a bill,
outside of Congress, comes from the
National Student Association and
National Student Lobby (NSA and NSL).
Countering Senator Roths' prophecy that
"soon we will have two groups of our
society left in colleges, the very poor and
the very rich," the NSA-NSL stressed
the inefficiancy of across the board tax
credits in a Memorandum in Opposition
sent to members of Congress. Such a
plan would be used by the more affluent
who don't need it costing the government
needed revenue.
The NSA-NSL believes tax credits
would create incentive for institutions to
increase tuition. They quote a Congres
sional Budget Office (CBO) student
which states " ... it is clear that tuition
charges are more likely to increase in
response to a broad across-the-board
subsidy like that contained in S. 311
(Roto Amendment) than they are when a
subsidy is targeted on a more narrowly
defined group of students . . ."
Part-time students would be ineligible
for the credit unless the bills under consideration are amended. Almost 39 percent of total degree-credit enrollment
were part-time students in 1976. A
noticeable portion of college enrollment
would be unaffected.
Tax credits would further add to the
complexity of federal expenditures for
education. The IRS would be put in a
position of policing educational institutions to determine if their courses meet
the necessary requirements for the
credits. The NSA-NSL along with the
American Teachers Federation support
toe expansion of existing student aid
programs to serve middle-income
families.
The Packwood-Moynihan bill has
maemaBamaaBsm
already come under sharp criticism involving toe constitutionality of providing
a tax break to parents of students in
parochial schools. The Supreme Court
has interpreted the First Amendment
clause "Congress shall make no law
respecting establishment of religion" to
mean that literally.
Senator Moynihan thinks the Supreme
Court interpretation is wrong and is
fighting for inclusion of religious institutions on toat point. He argues that the
founding fathers meant to protect
against the founding of a national
religion favored above others rather
than government aid to churches.
Aid to private schools is another sore
point with opponents. Moynihan states
that they should be helped because they
" . . i provide diversity to toe society,
choices to students and to their parents,
and a rich array of distinctive
educational offerings that even toe finest
of public institutions find difficult to supply not least because they are public and
must embody generalized principles."
Carroll College
Hhmh
PROSPECTOR
Ifce Pmpertar,
March 14, iffS
111. niMT.
St. Albert's in limbo
Lichtenstein at Carroll
Why would a Jesuit priest want to
fulfill his ministry through performing in
a circus?. The answer is love—love of
laughter, love of people, love of the
theater.
For the last seven years, ringmaster
Nick Weber and his two associates,
Miteh Kincannon of the University of
Montana and Jim Jackson of St. Louis,
have provided clown, animal and magic
acts, juggling and story-telling to 200
audiences a year in over 40 states.
The circus life has intrigued Weber
since he was five and it was at this time
that he started his life long learning of
Wizardry through experimentation and
experience. Clown schools do not appeal
to him because he believes it is institutionalizing a creative and
imaginative art.
Weber's rather unorthodox way of
preachingministry through the circus-
comes from his own view that the church
is too business-like, especially in its
procedure of tithing. He is assured toat
the greatest of all human vices is greed.
In collaboration with this belief, The
Royal Lichtenstein Circus is funded entirely through "pass the hat" donations,
and toe troupe is never allowed to count
the rewards of their labors. Says Weber,
"I perform, and those who are happy and
who have toe money give it."
Money received goes to feeding the
seven animals and the trio and fueling
their truck. All props, art work and
costuming are donations frohi friends.
The "sidewalk" circus includes 15 different acts feature Peppy, the flying dog,
a demonstration in extra-sensory
perception and two narrated mime
fables Angle Boespflug
Tentative proposals have been made to
} change St. Albert's Hall into something
other than a residence hall. Among the
proposals suggested were changing the
building into a Student Services Center,
containing all the offices pertaining to
student services, and also the suggestion
was made to leave it as it is and reserve
it for a retreat house or similar group
functions. However, the final decision
I will be made by the newly formed committee, headed by Dr. Kerins, that will
I also redesign the pending space of the
■■; old library.
Dean Roberts feels St. Al's should be
•■; left open as a residence hall, as it is the
| only campus housing offering single
rooms for girls. He feels that changing it
into offices would wipe out all possibility
: of ever using it as a residence hall again.
: Even if students are not housed in St.
i Al's, Roberts feels it should be left as it
* is "just in case."
No one seems to know when the switch
J would come for St. Albert's, It doesn't
■ look like it will be next fall, but only
*- enrollment Will tell.
Guadalupe Hall must be filled up first.
| Dean Roberts believes too many empty
| rooms in Guad will cause problems. Suggestions for toe empty spaces include
{ moving more faculty offices into the
| residence hall. There are some offices in
| Guad now, but Roberts is skeptical of ad-
I ding more. He feels offices in residence
I. halls may cause conflicts (such as too
{ much noise or vandalism which may
I cause hard feelings to develop between
II the faculty with offices in the hall and
I toe residents).
If the enrollment drops, the girls in St.
Al's will be the first to be moved. In
April, the girls Will be allowed to sign up
for rooms in St. Al's and in case of
closure, they may also reserve a room in
Guad or St. Charles.
Roberts feels that if the girls are
moved out of St. Albert's, arrangements
must be made for relocation of single
rooms for girls. It was propsoed that a
floor of Guadalupe be converted to
singles or, if an entire floor cannot be
converted, then at least half of that floor
be partitioned into singles.
The entire problem, as well as all possible alternatives, are still tentative at
this point. Nothing will be done until the
enrollment for the fall semester is
known.
Monette Martin
Colors
The Carroll College
Literary Magazine
is now on sale
at the
Carroll
Bookstore
■■■■■-*«wj^-!^ii.i-s^«3

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Tuition relief now before Congress
(el's (Washington insiders say this will
be the year middle-income families can
expect some relief from high tuition
costs. But not without a highly charged
fight hi Congress.
The current Tuition Tax Credit Bill
now in the Senate Finance Committee
would allow for a tax reduction up to $500
per student at any education level. The
bill sponsored by Senators Moynihan (D-
NV) and Packwood (R-Ore) plus 41
Senators co-signers, includes private and
parochial schools. The concept of a tax
credit is aimed at relieving the financial
strain on middle-income families who
don't qualify for financial aid but are
hard-pressed to meet college costs.
Similar bills have sailed through the
Senate only to be torn apart in the House.
Last month, final passage of a Social
Security financing bill was held up for
two weeks because of a tuition tax credit
amendment attached to it. The impasse
in the House was solved when the Senate
backed down after previously voting for
toe amendment, sponsored by Senator
Roth (R-Del).
The Senate took up the issue again in
January by introducing less than seven
bills dealing wito tax credits. The most
likely to succeed are the Packwood-
Moynihan version and a deferred tax
plan introduced by Senator Mikva (D-
111), which has found a measure of acceptance with House conferees. Mikva's
plan would permit a parent or self-
supporting student to withhold payment
of up to $1,500 in taxes until after the student graduates. The Mikva plan would
operate like a loan with little or no in
terest owed and a repayment period of
ten years,
Lon Skavedra, aide to Congresswoman
Patricia Scfaroeder (D-Colo), believes
, the version presented for a winning
House vote will be a combination of the
two. As it stands now however a lot of
compromise Will have to be effected to
overcome opposition.
The most articulate expression of dissent against the passage of such a bill,
outside of Congress, comes from the
National Student Association and
National Student Lobby (NSA and NSL).
Countering Senator Roths' prophecy that
"soon we will have two groups of our
society left in colleges, the very poor and
the very rich" the NSA-NSL stressed
the inefficiancy of across the board tax
credits in a Memorandum in Opposition
sent to members of Congress. Such a
plan would be used by the more affluent
who don't need it costing the government
needed revenue.
The NSA-NSL believes tax credits
would create incentive for institutions to
increase tuition. They quote a Congres
sional Budget Office (CBO) student
which states " ... it is clear that tuition
charges are more likely to increase in
response to a broad across-the-board
subsidy like that contained in S. 311
(Roto Amendment) than they are when a
subsidy is targeted on a more narrowly
defined group of students . . ."
Part-time students would be ineligible
for the credit unless the bills under consideration are amended. Almost 39 percent of total degree-credit enrollment
were part-time students in 1976. A
noticeable portion of college enrollment
would be unaffected.
Tax credits would further add to the
complexity of federal expenditures for
education. The IRS would be put in a
position of policing educational institutions to determine if their courses meet
the necessary requirements for the
credits. The NSA-NSL along with the
American Teachers Federation support
toe expansion of existing student aid
programs to serve middle-income
families.
The Packwood-Moynihan bill has
maemaBamaaBsm
already come under sharp criticism involving toe constitutionality of providing
a tax break to parents of students in
parochial schools. The Supreme Court
has interpreted the First Amendment
clause "Congress shall make no law
respecting establishment of religion" to
mean that literally.
Senator Moynihan thinks the Supreme
Court interpretation is wrong and is
fighting for inclusion of religious institutions on toat point. He argues that the
founding fathers meant to protect
against the founding of a national
religion favored above others rather
than government aid to churches.
Aid to private schools is another sore
point with opponents. Moynihan states
that they should be helped because they
" . . i provide diversity to toe society,
choices to students and to their parents,
and a rich array of distinctive
educational offerings that even toe finest
of public institutions find difficult to supply not least because they are public and
must embody generalized principles."
Carroll College
Hhmh
PROSPECTOR
Ifce Pmpertar,
March 14, iffS
111. niMT.
St. Albert's in limbo
Lichtenstein at Carroll
Why would a Jesuit priest want to
fulfill his ministry through performing in
a circus?. The answer is love—love of
laughter, love of people, love of the
theater.
For the last seven years, ringmaster
Nick Weber and his two associates,
Miteh Kincannon of the University of
Montana and Jim Jackson of St. Louis,
have provided clown, animal and magic
acts, juggling and story-telling to 200
audiences a year in over 40 states.
The circus life has intrigued Weber
since he was five and it was at this time
that he started his life long learning of
Wizardry through experimentation and
experience. Clown schools do not appeal
to him because he believes it is institutionalizing a creative and
imaginative art.
Weber's rather unorthodox way of
preachingministry through the circus-
comes from his own view that the church
is too business-like, especially in its
procedure of tithing. He is assured toat
the greatest of all human vices is greed.
In collaboration with this belief, The
Royal Lichtenstein Circus is funded entirely through "pass the hat" donations,
and toe troupe is never allowed to count
the rewards of their labors. Says Weber,
"I perform, and those who are happy and
who have toe money give it."
Money received goes to feeding the
seven animals and the trio and fueling
their truck. All props, art work and
costuming are donations frohi friends.
The "sidewalk" circus includes 15 different acts feature Peppy, the flying dog,
a demonstration in extra-sensory
perception and two narrated mime
fables Angle Boespflug
Tentative proposals have been made to
} change St. Albert's Hall into something
other than a residence hall. Among the
proposals suggested were changing the
building into a Student Services Center,
containing all the offices pertaining to
student services, and also the suggestion
was made to leave it as it is and reserve
it for a retreat house or similar group
functions. However, the final decision
I will be made by the newly formed committee, headed by Dr. Kerins, that will
I also redesign the pending space of the
■■; old library.
Dean Roberts feels St. Al's should be
•■; left open as a residence hall, as it is the
| only campus housing offering single
rooms for girls. He feels that changing it
into offices would wipe out all possibility
: of ever using it as a residence hall again.
: Even if students are not housed in St.
i Al's, Roberts feels it should be left as it
* is "just in case."
No one seems to know when the switch
J would come for St. Albert's, It doesn't
■ look like it will be next fall, but only
*- enrollment Will tell.
Guadalupe Hall must be filled up first.
| Dean Roberts believes too many empty
| rooms in Guad will cause problems. Suggestions for toe empty spaces include
{ moving more faculty offices into the
| residence hall. There are some offices in
| Guad now, but Roberts is skeptical of ad-
I ding more. He feels offices in residence
I. halls may cause conflicts (such as too
{ much noise or vandalism which may
I cause hard feelings to develop between
II the faculty with offices in the hall and
I toe residents).
If the enrollment drops, the girls in St.
Al's will be the first to be moved. In
April, the girls Will be allowed to sign up
for rooms in St. Al's and in case of
closure, they may also reserve a room in
Guad or St. Charles.
Roberts feels that if the girls are
moved out of St. Albert's, arrangements
must be made for relocation of single
rooms for girls. It was propsoed that a
floor of Guadalupe be converted to
singles or, if an entire floor cannot be
converted, then at least half of that floor
be partitioned into singles.
The entire problem, as well as all possible alternatives, are still tentative at
this point. Nothing will be done until the
enrollment for the fall semester is
known.
Monette Martin
Colors
The Carroll College
Literary Magazine
is now on sale
at the
Carroll
Bookstore
■■■■■-*«wj^-!^ii.i-s^«3